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Hello, Technolok. In the 1st phrase there is an accent on the action. The process is important "I was going to the cinema and reading a book. Birds were singing and the sun was shining. It was a wonderful day!" - Я шёл в кино и читал книгу. Птицы пели и солнце сияло. Это был чудесный день...

Thanks for all this information!
I didn't know that there were some regions where "o" was always pronounce "o". Everyday you learn something new...

Привет all of you!

I'm here to learn Russian. This is tough language! But little by little think I'm learning it. Maybe one day I'll get to write here only in Russian

Привет! Well I would like to be a hero of the Soviet Union and get a medal and a parade. But maybe I wouldn't like to be the guy who did a weapon used to kill lots of people all around the world. But you never know if using a weapon to kill a few can save the lives of millions. Tricky question, but ...

Hello everyone, let's see who can help me with this one. I'm having a look at verbs of movement and I don't understand a thing. Is there any different at all between these two phrases. Я шёл в кино. Я ходил в кино. At first I thought that maybe one very was perfective and the other one imperfective....

Привет всем! I have seen this map in Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Russia_GRP_per_capita_2008_US_dollars_%28nominal%29.svg There you can see the different regions in Russia and the rent per capita. According to it, Moscow and a part of Siberia are the richest areas in Russia. I guess t...

I knew it!

Спасибо Ljovanja!

Привет! I'm reading this article about kasha from the blog here: http://redkalinka.com/Russian-Blog/17/_Kasha-the-Russian-porridge/ I've tried kasha a few times, and I can't say that I particularly like it. Maybe kasha is not for me or maybe I haven't found the right recipe. What do you put when you...

Hello all Russian lovers :D Are это and эта pronounced differently or do they sound exactly the same? To my ears there's no difference at all, but maybe native speakers notice a difference. Can anyone help me? Is there any region in Russia where they actually pronounce "e-to" instead of &q...

Hi Ljovanja!

Thanks a lot! Now I think I understand it. So one of this verbs is perfective and the other one imperfective, right?